Bumble Bees (Bombus)

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"And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31)

- God's Little Folk -
Bumble Bees (Bombus)

On the sixth day of creation, God made them, and us!

(Bumble Bee - 03) This bumble bee is feeding on an aster in the
early Autumn. Like honey bees, bumble bees live in a colony where the adults
care for the young (larvae), all of whom are produced by a single queen. Iowa
State University goes on to say that the queen's first brood of offspring, (5 to
20), will all be workers (daughters) who take over the colony responsibilities
of nest enlargement, food gathering and storage, and feeding and caring for the
larvae. The queen continues to lay eggs throughout the summer. By late summer,
new reproductive males and females (kings and queens) are produced. These mate
on the wing and the fertilized females move to hibernation sites in the shelter
of loose bark, hollow trees or other dry, protected places to lie dormant
through the winter. The males and workers still in the colony die with frost or
the first hard freeze.

Presented here
are just a few of the countless components of God's creation. Just as we
cannot have human and animal life without water and plants, neither can we have lasting peace without
love and compassion. It is our hope
and prayer that this series will motivate people to live and act in a
cruelty-free manner; that we would no longer hurt or destroy each other, the
animals or our environment.

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these series, please contact;
Frank L. Hoffman flh@all-creatures.org
Photos by Frank L. Hoffman unless otherwise noted